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Doug Gorsline > Columbia River Gorge: East Gorge Wildflowers photo
Doug Gorsline > Here's another shot from the Cascade Head Trail looking south across the Salmon River Estuary toward Road's End Point and Lincoln City. This trail offers a continuously changing view down the Oregon Coast that is unsurpassed in my estimation.
Doug Gorsline > This view down the Oregon Coast from Cascade Head includes foxglove flowers in the foreground. Pretty as they are, the european foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a common invasive in the Coast Range of Oregon. The headland in the photo is Road's End Point.
Doug Gorsline > Looking south from the Cascade Head trail toward Lincoln City and Road's End, Oregon. The sandy beach is the Salmon River Sandspit.
Doug Gorsline > Eight Roosevelt elk graze in the native grasses on Cascade Head on the Oregon coast. This photo was shot in early June 2008, but the two elk at the bottom of the frame still have long winter coats. Although you see no antlers, at least 4 of the elk in this photo are bulls. I was able to see 'buttons' on their foreheads where their antlers were just beginning to regrow.
Doug Gorsline > Another view looking south from the Nature Conservancy's Cascade Head Preserve toward Lincoln City and Road's End, Oregon. The restored Salmon River Estuary appears to the left. The US Forest Service has been working for decades to return the estuary to something like its original condition.
Doug Gorsline > Looking south from the Nature Conservancy's Cascade Head Preserve toward Lincoln City and Road's End, Oregon. The body of water on the left is the Salmon River Estuary. The pink flowers in the foreground are the Hairy Stemmed Checkermallow (sidalcea hirtipes). Cascade Head is noted for its population of this scarce wildflower.
Doug Gorsline > At the end of about a quarter mile of 'tunnel', the Cascade Head Trail emerges from the dense coastal shrubbery into a grove of Western red alders. For an excellent guide to the hike, go to: http://www.portlandhikersfieldguide.org/wiki/Cascade_Head_Hike
Doug Gorsline > The next section of trail passes over a series of five or more bridges, depending on how you count. The trail climbs gradually and contours along the side of Cascade Head. Then it goes into a section that I call the 'tunnel', where dense coastal vegetation encloses the trail. Look at the far side of the bridge for an example.
Columbia River Gorge: East Gorge Wildflowers photo
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